310 p. : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-307)

Hawani's story / Hawani Debella and Aneesa Kassam -- The Development of Oromo political consciousness from 1958 to 1994 / Herbert S. Lewis -- The Survival and reconstruction of Oromo national identity / Mekuria Bulcha -- The Development of Oromo nationalism / Mohammed Hassen -- Perceiving Oromo : 'Galla' in the great narrative of Ethiopia / Jan Hultin -- Oromumma : tradition, consciousness and identity / Gemetchu Megerssa -- Re-examining the Galla/Oromo relationship : the stranger as a structural topic / Thomas Zitelmann -- Being Gabra today / Paolo Tablino -- Shifting identities along resource borders : becoming and continuing to be Boorana Oromo / Gufu Oba -- The political viability of Boorana pastoralism : a discussion of some features of the political system of the Borana Pastoralists of Southern Ethiopia / Johan Helland -- Power's ambiguity or the political significance of Gada / Marco Bassi -- Sources of life and identity / Gudrun Dahl -- Towards a comparative ethnography of the Oromo : the importance of affines / P.T.W. Baxter -- Keeping the peace of the Waso Boorana : becoming Oromo through religious diversification / Mario I. Aguilar -- Traditional and modern cooperatives among the oromo / Tesema Taá -- The becoming of place : a Tulama-Oromo region of Northern Shoa / Odd Eirik Arnesen -- Adopting an ambiguous position : Oromo relationships with strangers / Hector Blackhurst -- United and divided : Boorana and Gabaro among the Macha Oromo in Western Ethiopia / Alessandro Triulzi -- The Poetics of Nationalism : a poem by Jarso Waaqo Qoot'o / Abdullahi A. Shongolo

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